cárcava
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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cárcava is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fosa, poza o sumidero producido por una avenida de aguas. Pronounced [ˈkaɾkaβ̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cárcava |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaɾkaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for cárcava is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaɾkaβ̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cárcava in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cárcava, spelled C-Á-R-C-A-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fosa, poza o sumidero producido por una avenida de aguas.
- 2Zanja o foso.
- 3Hoya para enterrar a un muerto.
- 4Nombre común para definir una alcantarilla.
- 5Surcos profundos producidos en un suelo con pendiente a causa de las avenidas del agua de las lluvias en terrenos blandos y poco consistentes.
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